Imazighen: The Vanishing Traditions of Berber Women - Softcover

Geraldine Brooks

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9780500017388: Imazighen: The Vanishing Traditions of Berber Women

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500017387 ISBN 13: 9780500017388

Publisher: Clarkson Potter, 1999

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This is a record of the Berber women whose way of life is being eroded as modern times and warfare encroaches. The Berber people can be found around the Atlas Mountains area of North Africa. This book documents their difficult lives - from long mule journeys to sell their handmade clay pots in crowded souks, to stoically carrying water and firewood across miles of rocky terrain - and records the beauty they create through their spinning, weaving and carefully coiled pottery.

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n her previous books, Ndebele: The Art of an African Tribe and African Canvas: The Art of West African Women, Margaret Courtney-Clarke turns her sensitive eye on women whose lives have seldom been observed. Her photos explore the remarkable arts and rapidly changing way of life of the Berber women of North Africa. 230 full-color photos.

About the Author:

Margaret Courtney-Clarke has traveled throughout the world as a photographer. Her work has inspired films, including CBC and BBC documentaries, Fashion & Fabric designs, Interior decoration, Architecture and Building. Courtney-Clarke dedicated ten years to building the Ndebele Foundation Center for Women and Children where she trained hundreds of South Africans in the art of their forebears. Her work has been exhibited in Museums and Galleries across four continents. Courtney-Clarke has returned to Africa to photograph the finite environment of a continent in rapid transition.

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